FIRST JESSICA RABBIT WALLPAPERS!!

OMGZ! I actually got something done!

I've been gone for quote awhile and haven't really had a chance to work on anything, but I'm feeling pretty good now that I've managed to poop out something.

This isn't what Jessica will eventually look like, because I'm still working on all of the details, which are REALLY hard to recreate in vectors. But since I had the outline done, I figured an artsy silhouette wallpaper was in order.

Much like the one I did for Betty Boop, I tried to distill the image of Jessica to its primary lines. Make it simple while still communicating that it was her. I wasn't able to do this with Red Hot Riding Hood, and it was basically Betty's head that let me do it with her (Snicker), but Jessica was easily communicated with the two things that most define her construct, her hair and boobs.

I added shoes and lips because I like adding lips to these silhouettes, not sure why, and the shoes just seemed to balance the image, with bits of red on both ends giving the image an enclosed look. Also, I think I may have a shoe fetish. I'm gonna' go feel up a strapless pump and see what happens.

Regardless, here they are, Jessica Rabbit Wallpaper #1

4:3 ratio

From Cartoon Vixens Wallpapers

16:10 ratio

From Cartoon Vixens Wallpapers

I also was going to a color invert on a black background, but instead of being so boring I whipped up a sparkly mess to convey her image. I used the same filter that I'm using to render her dress in the final image. Here, it's just for fun.

4:3 ratio

From Cartoon Vixens Wallpapers

16:10 ratio

From Cartoon Vixens Wallpapers

Teh Nu Hottnessz

I wrote in a post while back about how much I love pin-up art, but dislike much of the new pin-up work that's being done. Apparently, that only includes North America, because France alone is producing some very promising work.

As I mentioned in my previous article, much of the pin-up work being done today is for the sake of easy money in want amounts to facile pornography. Technically good, sometimes amazing, but totally lacking in artistic texture.

Worse still, the styles implemented by these artists are all vaguely similar, resulting in a homogeneous pile of hardly-distinguishable images. Much like Triplets of Belleville, which looked like nothing from America or Japan, the work by these French artists is a breath of fresh air.


From what I've seen, none of these guys comes close to Gil Elvgren or Hajime Sorayama, but they're all young and better than me, so I guess I shouldn't criticize too much. I hope that this kind of stuff makes its way to the US more.

French Illustrators Pin-Ups (BuzzFeed.com)